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Sarkozy seeks to bury the hatchet in ChinaXi'An, China (AFP) April 28, 2010 French President Nicolas Sarkozy begins a visit to China on Wednesday aimed at reinvigorating ties tested two years ago over Tibet and at winning support from Beijing on new Iranian sanctions. The French president, making his second state visit to China, will meet the country's top leaders including his opposite number Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing before heading to Shanghai for the start of the World Expo. Sarkozy - who will be accompanied by his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and a de ... read more |
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Tehran (UPI) Apr 21, 2010 Iranian, Pakistani and Indian leaders are to meet in Tehran next month to discuss extending a planned strategic pipeline from Iran to energy-short Pakistan to India as well, a project the United States has repeatedly sought to wreck. First mooted in 1994, it's been under discussion off and on for 16 years but has constantly run into difficulties largely because of Iran's pariah status a ... more  
New Delhi, India (SPX) Apr 21, 2010India will temporarily go back to using Russian-produced space equipment after its indigenous GSLV rocket failed, a spokesman for Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said on Friday. The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV D3, fell into the Bay of Bengal 304 seconds after liftoff as its cryogenic engine failed to perform. The rocket tumbled, lost altitude and finally splashe ... more  
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Apr 20, 2010 Amid the growing concerns of Western intelligence services that al-Qaida appears to be building up its capabilities in Yemen and Somalia, the focus is increasingly on one man in the jihadist leadership: Mohammed Ilyas Kashmiri. He commands al-Qaida's elite and infamous Brigade 313, named after the number of supporters who stood with the Prophet Mohammed in a seventh-century battle and d ... more |
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GSAT-4 Rocket Lost, But Precious Payload SafeBangalore (IANS) Apr 19, 2010 A fateful but providential decision by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) saved a precious Indo-Israeli science payload from crashing into the sea in the failed GSLV launch mission Thursday. Under the original plan, the ultraviolet telescope called TAUVEX was to be carried by GSAT-4, which plunged into the Bay of Bengal after the indigenously built cryogenic stage failed to fire up. But as it turned out, for technical reasons, ISRO decided at the last minute not to include the TAU ... read more |
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